HostGator and GoDaddy are household names when it comes to web hosting service provision. Both of them are highly lauded when it comes to their fulfillment of tasks and promises. However, they are also very frequently petted against each other. The following offers a comparison of the two domains.

Reliability and Uptime guarantees:-

HostGator:- Hostgator provides its users with a confident 99.9 % uptime guarantee. Moreover, it promises a credit applied, following the month of hosting, to its customers, in case the guarantee is not met with. This, however, is done if a well enough reason is provided to the domain, because they seem to have discretion regarding whether to apply for the credit.

GoDaddy:- This domain also provides its users with 99.9% uptime guarantee, as mentioned on their websites. However, it does not mention its policy if it fails to keep its commitment.

Security

Security is a very important feature that the domains must provide to their customers, given that the customers’ entire websites’ healths depend on it. Data compromization in form of hacking, power failures, natural disasters, theft of hardware, etc. can prove to be lethal for websites. Both the service providers seem to pay special attention to this aspect.

HostGator:- This domain does weekly backups and malware scans to spot any suspicious activity. While this may not be very frequent, it must be understood that the data centers of this domain are exceptionally security conscious, with multiple layers of protection. Moreover, staff is present 24/ 7/ 365 in its office, which means that a problem is resolved as soon as it is spotted.

GoDaddy:- GoDaddy is more frequent in backing up data and scanning malware. In fact, it does it every day! The entire websites and files are backed up and stored in cloud. However, users are charged a monthly fee for it. Other than that, the systems of this domain block an average of 2.5 million attackers, with malicious intents, every hour. The data encryption is also very powerful.

Extra Features

HostGator :- HostGator provides its users with a free domain name for the first term of every site they create using the domain. Also, if someone wishes to migrate his/ her site from another domain to HostGator, he/ she may do that without any fee being charged to him/ her.

GoDaddy:- GoDaddy provides to its customers free website builders to create new websites. Also, customers are free to choose their domain names for free, for the first term, given that their hosting package is at least a year long.

Bluehost and HostGator are two of the most popular names when it comes to when it comes to the provision of web hosting services. Even though both of them have similar functions, i.e. allowing individuals and organizations to make their websites accessible via the World Wide Web, providing data center space and Internet connectivity, it is in the nitty-gritty that the differences lie, and which ultimately make all of the difference. While these distinctions may not be apparent initially, these become more obvious when one begins to use the services. The following article is a compilation of the differences between the two service providers:

HostGator: – HostGator is excellent when it comes to performance and reliability. This is also why it offers a 99.9 % uptime guarantee. Its sites are hosted in the Dual Xenon Servers, which are well connected, and can connect to 10 backbone providers simultaneously.

Bluehost:- Bluehost invests millions of dollars every year in technology in an effort to make its performance better. It uses CPU segregation technology which very intelligently controls CPUs and also protects one’s site from bad users, both of which prove to be highly beneficial.

Uptime

Even though both of the providers claim to have 99.9 % uptime values, it is not the case when it comes to practical life. Website downtime can cause very bad experiences for visitors, and this is why focusing on this aspect is important.

HostGator: – Upon close monitoring using Pingdom, it was found that during 7 days of observation, HostGator went down 1 time, for a total of 1 minute. This is pretty good.

Bluehost: Unlike its claim, it was found, upon similar, close inspection, that Bluehost suffered from 11 outages in 7 days, which accounted for a total of 51 minutes.

Speed and Response Time

No one likes a website that is too slow to load and which takes forever to respond to commands. It is the job of web service providers to ensure that websites run smoothly and efficiently.

It was found that, given the exact same design, blog posts, images and pages, websites that were created using HostGator loaded 50% faster than their counterparts on Bluehost. It was also determined, using Pingdom again, that the response time of HostGator was around 4.3 times that of the other domain.

User Interface

Even though both of the webs hosting services use cPanel as their underlying control panel, it is HostGator that goes a step further, and allows its customers to customize it according to their requirements.

While it seems that HostGator may be the better of the two, it might not necessarily be the case. Given one’s needs and requirements, it might be the other domain that suits his/ her needs better. Hence, objectively stating that which of the two is better might not be very intelligent.